Dark side of the Plot
About halfway through reading the Slate article "Star Wars: Episodes I-VI: The greatest postmodern art film ever," by Aidan Wasley,...
Trailblazers
These items aren't quite coherently connected, but they felt like they made a certain amount of sense together. There's a...
Weekend
In other news, it was a busy weekend. I went to Kam's Halloween party on Friday night, and Sonya's birthday...
Haircut
Sunday I went to my usual haircut place to get a haircut. I think the guy who cut my hair...
Valley shrinks again; film at 11
Monday at work, someone wandered by my cube looking for a particular cube number where a new employee was supposed...
More about posting comments
Several people have had trouble posting comments to my journal in the past few weeks; they post a comment, and...
Millionth word
I'm sleepy and headachey, so figured I'd take a break from serious magazine work to post something a little more...
Performance tuning
Karen pointed out recently that an important part of our submissions database was being really really slow. I had noticed,...
Don’t spam the editors
Here's another piece of advice for writers. (Or anyone else, but writers are who I see doing this.) When you're...
Fall back
Remember that Daylight Saving Time ends (in most of the US, anyway) tonight. On the plus side, yay for an...
Addendum re SH donations
The other day, in my entry about the SH fund drive, I said I would love to see a bunch...
Life ‘n’ stuff
Somehow everything I've thought about posting lately seems simultaneously too trivial to be worth posting about and too big and...